Joseph Bell DeRemer Papers, 1887-1986

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: The Proposed New United Lutheran Church Architects Joseph Bell and Samuel Teel DeRemer

Folder 2: A Proposed New United Lutheran Church Architects Joseph Bell and Samuel Teel DeRemer

Folder 3: Joseph Bell DeRemer logo

Folder 4: St. Mary's Church and school, Grand Forks; Eagles building, Crookston, Minnesota

Folder 5: St. Catherine's Church, Lomice, North Dakota; New Ryan Hotel, Grand Forks

Folder 6: New grade and high school, Park River, North Dakota; new high school, Devil's Lake, North Dakota

Folder 7: National Register nomination for the George B. Clifford House, 406 Reeves Drive, Grand Forks, 1986

Folder 8: Building specifications for McCanna home, a two-story frame dwelling

Folder 9: Lecture notes and scaled drawings

Folder 10: Early Christian Ornament; paper submitted to Professor Hamlin, October 8, 1896

Folder 11: Correspondence and Letterheads, April 21, 1897 and November 21, 1931

Folder 12: Newspaper clippings, October 31, 1929 and October 27, 1935

Folder 13: Accounts Payable & Receivable, 1906-1915

Folder 14: Scale Plan: Rock Garden for Mrs. Jas. K. Anderson

Folder 15: Tau Sigma Rho Fraternity Blueprints

Folder 16: United Lutheran Church Dedication Programs, 1932 and 1942

Folder 17: Wilshire Presbyterian Church; Title Insurance Building

Folder 18: Sketches and Drafts

Folder 19: Doughboy Service Oil Company Advertisement Drafts

Folder 20: Biographical materials, 1845-1928

Folder 21: Correspondence, 1926, 1938, and 1980

Folder 22: Newspaper clippings, June 26, 1904 and November 29, 1981

Folder 23: The Proposed New United Lutheran Church Program

Folder 24: Architectural Drawings

Item 1: Eagles Building, Crookston, Minnesota

Item 2: Filling Station-Kelly and Palmer

Item 3: Grade and High School, Hamilton, North Dakota

Item 4: Plot Plan for the New Grade and High School, Devils Lake, North Dakota

Item 5: New Ryan Hotel

Item 6: Park River Grade and High School

Item 7: The Proposed Home of Dr. P. W. Smith Esq.

Item 8: St. Catherine's Church-Lomice, North Dakota

Item 9: Wilshire Presbyterian Church: Title Insurance Building, Los Angeles, California

Folder 25: Postcards of Architectural Projects

Folder 26: Schedule and Specifications - Polk County Courthouse and Grand Forks County Courthouse, 1938

Folder 27: Grant applications, September 1938

Folder 28: Architectural Building Design articles, 1879-1914

Folder 29: American Institute of Architects Certificate, August 1921

Folder 30: "The Fighting Governor: The Story of William Langer and the State of North Dakota" - includes DeRemer's Designs of the Capitol Building, 1938

Folder 31: Oxford House materials, 1902 and 1975

Folder 32: Architectural Help and Figures pamphlet

Folder 33: The Improvement Bulletin: The Construction News Weekly of the Northwest, May 19, 1928

Folder 34: Library Book Plate

Folder 35: Glasses

Folder 36: Miscellaneous, 1904-1982

Folder 37: Lizzie DeRemer newspaper article, July 20, 1941

Folder 38: Lizzie DeRemer Autograph Book, January 9, 1887

Folder 39: Samuel T. DeRemer Architectural Drawings

Item 1: Scheme for Corner Market

Item 2: Larson-Olson Building

Item 3: The Nestor Tap Room: End Interior-F. J. Hughes, Owner

Item 4: South Side Elementary School

Item 5: St. Vincent's Hospital, Crookston, Minnesota

Item 6: St. Vincent's Hospital, Crookston, Minnesota

Folder 40: Five Unidentified Architectural Drawings by Samuel and Joseph DeRemer

Folder 41: Joseph Bell DeRemer's book plates

Folder 42: Photocopied newspaper articles, 1902-1904

Folder 43: Royce Yeater notes, 1974

Folder 44: Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings and Postcards regarding Joseph Bell DeRemer, 1931-1952

Item 1: Scrapbook of newspaper clippings regarding architectural projects of Joseph Bell DeRemer and Samuel T. DeRemer, 1909-1955

Box 2

Folder 1: Joseph DeRemer's spats

Folder 2: Lizzie DeRemer's beaded blouse

Folder 3: Lizzie DeRemer's black skirt

Box 3

Item 1: Large Architectural Tools

Box 4

Item 1: Small Architectural Tools

Box 5

Item 1: Black tophat

Items 1-4

Item 1: Miscellaneous large architectural tools

Separated and placed on the shelves adjacent to the collection.

Item 2: Framed sketch of Joseph Bell DeRemer's book plate by Samuel T. DeRemer, 1922

Separated and placed on the shelves adjacent to the collection.

Item 3: Framed sketch of the Bellevue Apartments - J.A. Dinnie Co. and Oscar C.G. Knudson, owners; sketched by Joseph Bell DeRemer, 1923

Separated and placed on the shelves adjacent to the collection.

Item 4: Unidentified framed drawing by either Joseph or Samuel DeRemer, 1932

Separated and placed on the shelves adjacent to the collection.

Photographs 1-75

Separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets.

Photograph 1: Joseph Bell DeRemer at work, undated

Photograph 2: Jo’bel and Joseph Bell DeRemer, 1939

Photograph 3: Joseph Bell and Elizabeth DeRemer, June 1942

Photograph 4: Joseph Bell DeRemer at work, undated

Photograph 5: Joseph Bell DeRemer and unidentified, undated

Photograph 6: Joseph Bell DeRemer and his father, James, at the home in Montana, New Jersey, where Joseph was born in 1871

Photograph 7: House on North 25th Street, by alley of sorority facing University

Photograph 8: Samuel Teel DeRemer, undated

Photograph 9: Samuel Teel DeRemer and grandmother, January 1951

Photograph 10: Joseph Bell DeRemer at his desk, undated

Photograph 11: Joseph Bell and Elizabeth DeRemer at their cabin, 1941

Photograph 12: The DeRemer family, (Joseph and Elizabeth; Samuel Teel DeRemer and family), 1933

Photograph 13: Joseph Bell and Elizabeth DeRemer

Photograph 14: Joseph Bell DeRemer's office, undated

Photograph 15: Towner County Memorial Building (Joseph Bell DeRemer, architect), undated

Photograph 16: F.W. Mann & Sons, Devils Lake, North Dakota

Photograph 17: St. Mary's Church and school, Grand Forks (postcard)

Photograph 18: Grand Forks Deaconess Hospital (Samuel T. DeRemer, architect)

Photograph 19: United Presbyterian Church (First Presbyterian), 308 S 5th, Grand Forks, undated

Photograph 20: North Dakota State Building for Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California., 1915

Photograph 21: McCanna Family Home, McCanna, North Dakota

Photograph 22: United Lutheran Church, Grand Forks

Photograph 23: United Lutheran Church, Grand Forks

Photograph 24: United Lutheran Church, Grand Forks

Photograph 25: United Lutheran Church, Grand Forks

Photograph 26: United Lutheran Church, Main Auditorium looking toward altar: Grand Forks

Photograph 27: Cando School

Photograph 28: Unidentified

Photograph 29: Unidentified

Photograph 30: Unidentified

Photograph 31: Unidentified

Photograph 32: Architectural drawing: "Low cost dwelling scheme for West lot, Otto J. Eickhof, Crookston, Minnesota" by Sam T. DeRemer

Photograph 33: Architectural drawing: "Low cost dwelling scheme for East lot, Otto J. Eickhof, Crookston, Minnesota" by Sam T. DeRemer

Photograph 34: Cando School

Photograph 35: Compiegne-L'Hotel de Ville

Photograph 36: Geo H. Olmsted Residence, Grand Forks (built in 1920)

Photograph 37: Grand Forks Deaconess Hospital

Photograph 38: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence

Photograph 39: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence

Photograph 40: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence - Flower Garden

Photograph 41: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence - Reception Hall

Photograph 42: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence - Dining Room

Photograph 43: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence - Living Room

Photograph 44: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence

Photograph 45: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence

Photograph 46: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence - Mrs. DeRemer's Pitcher Collection

Photograph 47: Ruettell Clothing Company

Photograph 48: Towner County Memorial

Photograph 49: Joseph Bell DeRemer Family, 1893

Photograph 50: Samuel T. DeRemer

Photograph 51: Delores DeRemer

Photograph 52: Elizabeth DeRemer

Photograph 53: Elizabeth, Samuel, and Delores DeRemer, 1895

Photograph 54: Samuel T. DeRemer, 1898

Photograph 55: Four Generations: Grandma, Mamma, Lizzie, and Delores, 1899

Photograph 56: Family Group at Aunt Alice's New Village, 1905

Photograph 57: Samuel T. DeRemer, 1912

Photograph 58: Elizabeth DeRemer on the day Delores was married, 1915

Photograph 59: Joseph and Samuel DeRemer on the day Sam came home from war, 1918

Photograph 60: Joseph DeRemer and C. Turner, 1926

Photograph 61: Joseph DeRemer

Photograph 62: Joseph DeRemer in his office

Photograph 63: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DeRemer, taken by Dr. Barr of UND Art Department

Photograph 64: Unidentified

Photograph 65: Unidentified

Photograph 66: Unidentified

Photograph 67: Unidentified

Photograph 68: Unidentified

Photograph 69: Unidentified

Photograph 70: Unidentified

Photograph 71: Unidentified

Photograph 72: Unidentified

Photograph 73: Joseph Bell DeRemer in his library, ca. 1905

Photograph 74: R.B. Griffith and Joseph Bell DeRemer

Photograph 75: Joseph Bell DeRemer Portrait

Oversize Folder 1: Drawings by Joseph Bell DeRemer and McCanna Farming Co. House Blueprints, McCanna, ND

First year architectural school drawings (12 panels and 3 plates):

Six panels of plants and trees on one sheet, July 10, 1896

Six panels of plants and trees on one sheet, January 9, 1897

"A Naples" Plate VIII, July 28, 1896

"The Tuscan Order" Plate X, August 1, 1896

"Balusters and Balustrade" Plate XII, August 28, 1896

McCanna blueprints, August 1920 (10 sheets consecutively numbered)

Oversize Folder 2: Assorted Drawings

Street Front of Proposed Building for Jacob Lampert - Chicago Bakery, Grand Forks (1 sheet)

Sketches of Joseph and Josie DeRemer with Poetry (1 sheet)

Proposed Administration Building - Grand Forks Municipal Airport (4 sheets)

Proposed New State Theatre, Red Lake Falls, MN (2 sheets)

Gymnasium (2 sheets - Ground and First Floor Plans)

Church (1 sheet - First Floor Plan)

Church (2 sheets - labeled A and B)

Proposed Modernizing Treatment for Hotel Crookston, Crookston, MN (1 sheet)

Oversize Folder 3: Drafts - Joseph Bell DeRemer

Item 1: Interior Treatment for Elks Club

Main Club Lounge looking toward entrance, buffet looking toward bar, and buffet looking toward dining room.

Item 2: Section - Grand Forks Municipal Airport Administration Building

Item 3: Ground Floor Plan - Grand Forks Municipal Airport Administration Building

Item 4: Second Floor Plan - Grand Forks Municipal Airport Administration Building

Item 5: Decorative Scheme for United Lutheran Church (2 panels)

Item 6: New State Theatre, Red Lake Falls, Minnesota (C.P. Knudson, Owner)

Item 7: First Floor Plan - unidentified gymnasium

Item 8: Ground Floor Plan - unidentified gymnasium

Item 9: First Floor Plan - unidentified church

Item 10: Plate 12 - Balusters and Balustrade

Oversize Folder 4: Drawings - Joseph Bell DeRemer

Item 1: Front Elevation - Grand Forks Municipal Airport Administration Building

Item 2: East Front Elevation - Proposed Liberal Arts Building, University of North Dakota

Item 3: Elks Lodge and Clubhouse, Thief River Falls, Minnesota

North Elevation, River Front, and West Front Elevation

Item 4: Grand Forks Steam Laundry Company

Item 5: Gymnasium and Auditorium, Crookston, Minnesota

Item 6: Gymnasium and Auditorium, Crookston, Minnesota

Item 7: Joseph DeRemer, 17 years old and 37 years old

Item 8: Merrifield Hall, University of North Dakota

Item 9: Modernizing Treatment, Hotel Crookston

Item 10: New Chapter House for Epsilon Kappa of Sigma Nu

Item 11: New State Theatre, Red Lake Falls, Minnesota (C. P. Knudson, Owner)

Item 12: Public School, Enderlin, North Dakota

Item 13: School, Enderlin, North Dakota

Item 14: Side Elevation of proposed Filling Station

Item 15: Street Front of proposed Building for J. Lampert Esq.

Item 16: Unidentified

Oversize Folder 5: Blueprints - Joseph Bell DeRemer

Items 1-2: Grand Forks Municipal Airport Administration Building

Front Elevation, Ground Floor Plan, Second Floor Plan, and Section

Items 3-4: Cando Public School

East and West Elevations, First Floor Plan, Second Floor Plan, and Foundation Plan

Item 5: Plate 1 - Plan of Bases

Item 6: Plate 2 - Framing Plan

Item 7: Plate 3 - Framing Plan

Item 8: Plate 5 - Cast Iron Base and Steel Column Connection

Item 9: Plate 6 - Cast Iron Base and Column Connection

Item 10: Plate 7 - Cast Iron Base and Phoenix Column Connection

Item 11: Plate 8 - Steel Base and Column Connection

Item 12: Plate 9 - Case Iron Column Connections

Item 13: Plate 10 - Cast Iron Column Connections

Item 14: Plate 11 - Cast Iron Details

Item 15: Plate 13 - Steel Column Connections

Item 16: Plate 14 - Steel Column Connections

Item 17: Plate 16 - Steel Column Connections for Curtain Walls

Item 18: Plate 18 - Phoenix Column Connections

Item 19: The Corinthian Order

Item 20: The Doric Order - Plan of Capital and Entablature

Item 21: The Greek Orders

Item 22: The Ionic Order

Item 23: The Tuscan Order

Item 24: Comparison of the Orders

Item 25: Intercolumniation and Superposition

Item 26: Pediments

Item 27: Café and Lounge, Crookston Hotel

Oversize Folder 6: Blueprints - Joseph Bell DeRemer

Item 1: Grand Forks Municipal Airport Administration Building

Front Elevation, Ground Floor Plan, Second Floor Plan, and Section

Item 2: Cando Grade School and High School

Elevation of Precast Concrete Panels

Item 3: Cando Public Schools

East and West Elevations, First and Second Floor Plans, and Foundation Plan

Item 4: Grand Forks County Jail and Sheriff's House

Front Elevation (1), Basement Plan (2), First Floor Plan (3), Second Floor Plan (4), Typical Floor Plan: Third and Fourth (5), and  Transverse Section (6)

Item 5: Renovation and New Elevator - Grand Forks County Courthouse

First Floor Plan (7), Second Floor Plan (8), and Third Floor Plan (9)

Item 6: The Composite Order

Plan of Capital and Entablature

Item 7: The Corinthian Order

Plan of Capital and Entablature

Item 8: The Doric Order

Plan of Capital and Entablature

Item 9: The Greek Orders

Item 10: Mouldings

Item 11: Pedestals and Pilasters

Item 12: Plate 4 - Section

Item 13: Plate 19 - Phoenix Column Connections

Item 14: Plate 20 - Details of Framing

Item 15: Plate 21 - Plate Girders

Item 16: Plate 22 - Box Girders

Item 17: Plate 24 - Bracing details

Oversize Folder 7: Drafts - Samuel DeRemer

Item 1: Elevation Plan - Lealos

Item 2: Lukkason's Bar, Lounge, and Café, East Grand Forks, Minnesota (1 of 4)

East Wall of Cocktail Lounge and Dining Lounge

Dining Lounge and Cocktail Lounge looking west

Folding Doors: End Wall of Dining Lounge and Front End Cocktail Lounge

Item 3: Lukkason's Bar, Lounge, and Café, East Grand Forks, Minnesota (2 of 4)

Lunch Room looking toward Kitchen

Doors to New Lounge

Lunch Room looking east

Lunch Room looking toward alley

Floor Plan of Lunch Room

Ceiling Plan of Lunch Room

Item 4: Lukkason's Bar, Lounge, and Café, East Grand Forks, Minnesota (3 of 4)

Basement Plan

East and West Walls of Rumpus Room

Item 5: Lukkason's Bar, Lounge, and Café, East Grand Forks, Minnesota (4 of 4)

First Floor Plan

Item 6: Side Interior 1 - Nestor Tap Room (F.J. Hughes, Owner)

Item 7: Side Interior 2 - Nestor Tap Room (F.J. Hughes, Owner)

Item 8: Nestor Tap Room, Fargo (F.J. Hughes, Owner)

Item 9: Reflected Ceiling Plan - Nestor Tap Room (F.J. Hughes, Owner)

Item 10: Elevation Plan - Oscar's

Oversize Folder 8: Color Drawings - Samuel DeRemer

Item 1: DeSoto/Goebel Motors/Plymouth

Item 2: Color Scheme A - First Presbyterian Church, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Item 3: Color Scheme B - First Presbyterian Church, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Item 4: Four Schemes for decorating Bobby's Café

Item 5: L.M. Mondry Home

Item 6: Hotel Frances

Item 7: New Gymnasium Building, Petersburg, North Dakota

Item 8: Unidentified

Oversize Folder 9: Black and White Drawings - Samuel DeRemer (1 of 2)

Item 1: Dr. Pepper Bottling Plant, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Item 2: Elementary School, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Item 3: Hotel Francis

Item 4: Memorial Building, Lakota, North Dakota

Item 5: New Hotel Francis, East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Item 6: Winship Elementary School, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Items 7-10: Unidentified

Oversize Folder 10: Black and White Drawings - Samuel DeRemer (2 of 2)

Item 1: Empire State Building

Items 2-4: Unidentified

Oversize Folder 11: Unidentified Drafts and Drawings

Item 1: First Floor Plan

Item 2: Second Floor Plan

Item 3: Unidentified

Item 4: Unidentified

Item 5: East Elevation

Item 6: East Elevation - Color

Item 7: Front Elevation

Item 8: West Front - Home of L.M. Mondry, Esq.

Item 9: Ascending and Descending Lithograph, March 1960

Item 10: Polk County State Bank

Item 11: Unidentified

Items 12-13: Unidentified - Color

Items 14-15: Unidentified

Items 16-18: Unidentified - Color

Item 19: Unidentified

Oversize Folder 12: House and Building Plans, 1904-1955

Project 137 - Grand Forks Public Library, February 1904 (10 sheets)

Project 139 - Panovitz Furniture Building, 31 South 3rd Street, March 1904 (14 sheets)

Project 165 - House of Robert H. McCoy, 401 Reeves Drive, September 1904 (14 sheets)

Project 520 - Grafton State School Dormitory, May 1922 (15 sheets)

Project 581 - Delta Gamma Sorority, March 1926 (9 sheets)

Remodel of kitchen area, House of Leslie "Bill" Larson, 401 Reeves Drive, 1955 (11 sheets)